Archive for October 26, 2006

Bloggy Digital

Last weekend, I finally joined the Digital SLR revolution and picked up the Nikon D80.
It’s a phenomenal camera, and at $1,000 CDN, a complete steal. If anyone out there has been thinking about a DSLR, and has a credit card that can bear it, for the love of God, dive in. The water’s so beautifully [...]

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WoWee ZoWee

The Beeb reports that the release of the widely anticipated World of Warcraft expansion pack is behind schedule.
Blizzard has announced the release of the Burning Crusade expansion pack is now being delayed until January 2007.
The expansion, which gives players new races, territories and more powerful characters, was scheduled to appear in late 2006.
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Destroy the Humans!

A nice environmental piece, although the message is maybe a bit didactic…
OK, a lot didactic…
OK, I’ve heard subtler sermons from Pope Benedict…
But people, it’s all true, and it looks nice.
WATCH

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Enron Explorer

An interesting little data visualization site that allows you to see all the interconnections among the sleazebags and trainspotters at Enron.
In October 2003 the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission placed 200,000 of Enron’s internal emails from 1999-2002 into the public domain as part of its ongoing investigations. The archive offers an extraordinary window into [...]

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